We have the opportunity to help Arkansas State Parks out and further our longstanding research in the old mercantile district of Washington, the first American market center in southwest Arkansas. Arkansas Archeological Society members can come dig with us, and anyone interested in archeology can visit us during the excavation! Let’s talk details… Where: Historic… Read More
The Southern Arkansas University Research Station of the Arkansas Archeological Survey (AAS-SAU) is located on the SAU campus in Magnolia, Arkansas. The AAS-SAU Research Station is responsible for the archeological resources of 11 counties in southwestern Arkansas. The station territory stretches from the southern edge of the Ouachita Mountains to the Arkansas/Louisiana state Line, and incorporates the Great Bend region of the Red River. The late prehistoric and protohistoric inhabitants within the station territory were members of the Caddoan culture (in the west) and the Plaquemine culture (in the east). Among the important sites in the SAU station territory is Crenshaw, the earliest known Caddoan ceremonial center, and Historic Washington State Park, an antebellum town restored and interpreted by Arkansas State Parks and the Pioneer Washington Restoration Foundation.
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AAS-SAU News
A Significant Update about the Training Program
Hello, friends. We have had a major development with the plans for the upcoming Arkansas Archeological Society Training Program. Due to a recent land sale, we no longer have permission to be at the Lockesburg Mounds site, which was to be the site of our field portion. With the support of community members and the… Read More
H. Newell Wardle and the People of the Flints
It’s March, and we here in the world of Arkansas archeology are deep into Archeology Month. It’s *also* Women’s History Month in the United States, and we’ve got a nice little confluence of these things for you today. We know that one of the first archeologists to work and publish in southwest Arkansas archeology was… Read More
Spring Break Dig at the Witter House, HWSP
Daniel T. Witter was one of Arkansas’s early legislators, serving in Little Rock during the Territorial period (pre-1836). He had a house in Washington as early as the 1820s, and remained there until 1859. The house remained until around the time of World War II before being torn down (photo shows it in 1938). Though… Read More
